CVEvulnerability

CVE-2000-1207

7.2 HIGH Published 2000-09-30 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2000-09-30
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Description

userhelper in the usermode package on Red Hat Linux executes non-setuid programs as root, which does not activate the security measures in glibc and allows the programs to be exploited via format string vulnerabilities in glibc via the LANG or LC_ALL environment variables (CVE-2000-0844).

Affected configurations

• redhat linux

References